Notes

Table of contents: 1. Ernest Rutherford : father of nuclear physics -- 2.
Civil engineers: William Butler : house mover ; Harry Higginson : Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge ;
Robert Denniston : Denniston self-acting incline ; John Rochfort : Main Trunk railway line ; Robert
Holmes : Raurimu Spiral -- 3. Early inventors: Arthur Beverly : watchmaker ; John Eustace : airtight
lid ; R.J. Dickie, J.H. Brown and W. Andrews : stamp vending machine ; Ernest Godward : hairpin and
carburettor ; George Julius : the totaliser -- 4. Motoring maestros: Cecil Wood : first New Zealand
motorbike and built car ; Charles Jones : the motorised toboggan -- 5. Aviation pioneers: Richard
Pearse : first to fly? ; Leo and Vivian Walsh : New Zealand's Wright brothers ; Jean Batten : female
aviation pioneer ; Peter Button : air ambulance pioneer -- 6. Social pioneers: Samuel Parnell : the
eight-hour working day ; Elizabeth Yates : world's first voluntarily elected female mayor ; Kate
Sheppard : the sensible suffragette ; Emily Siedeberg : first woman doctor ; Ethel Benjamin : first
woman lawyer in the British Empire ; Agnes Bennett : pioneering feminist ; Richard Seddon : old age
pension ; Elizabeth McCombs : first woman M.P. ; Mabel Howard : first woman cabinet minister ; Jenny
Shipley : first woman prime minister ; Helen Clark : first elected woman prime minister -- 7.
Agricultural engineers: John Blake : milking machine ; Sydney Knapp : Knapp sack sprayer ; H. Lamont
Murray and Frank S. Board : vacreator ; Bill Gallagher : electric fence ; Alexander Allison, Hayward
Wright, Jim McLoughlin : kiwifruit ; John Lambert, Alan Pritchard, Doug Campbell, John Frizzell :
aerial top-dressing -- 8. Ingenuity with wool and sheep: James Little : Corriedale ; F.W. Dry :
Drysdale ; Geoffrey Peren : Perendale ; Anonymous : wide-gauge shears with a curl ; Godfrey and Ivan
Bowen : standard shearing technique -- 9. Bill Hamilton : jet boat and lots more --10. Machines and
machine-guns: Francis Delautour : five-cycle combustion engine ; Mick Couper : giant plough ; Charles
Crowe : aircraft designer ; Alan Mitchell : world's fastest machine-gun -- 11. Medical marvels: Sir
Harold Gillies : plastic surgery pioneer ; Archibald McIndoe : plastic surgery pioneer ; Sir Brian
Barrett-Boyes : heart surgeon ; William Liley : world's first prenatal blood transfusion ; John
Baeyertz : pregnancy tape ; Colin Murdoch : tranquilliser gun and disposable syringe ; Fred Hollows :
eyes for the poor ; Leslie Kay : sonic sight for the blind -- 12. Academic aces: Alexander Aitken :
maths genius ; Eric Partridge : the word man ; Harold Williams : world's greatest linguist -- 13.
Sports shapers: William Atack : referee's whistle ; Vic Cavanagh : rucking ; William [i.e. Wilson]
Whineray : Willie away ; Arthur Lydiard : coaching and jogging -- 14. The searchers: Geoffrey Orbell :
the lost bird ; Joan Wiffen : the dinosaur lady -- 15. Super scientists: William Pickering : father of
the Space Age ; Maurice Wilkins : DNA ; Alan McDiarmid : Nobel Prize-winning chemist -- 16. Brewing,
crushing, cutting, securing: John Hart : Thermette ; Morton Coutts : brewing ; Jim McDonald and Bryan
Bartley : rock crusher ; Bill Robinson : quake absorbers ; Claudio Petronelli and Gavin Park :
childproof pill container ; John Hough : Tullen snips ; Murray Barber : Securichain ; William Bacon :
Yale lock -- 17. Educators: Sylvia Ashton-Warner : organic teaching ; Dame Marie Clay : Reading
Recovery Programme ; Alan Duff : Books in Homes -- 18. Maverick mechanics: Burt Munro : world's fastest
Indian ; John Britten : Britten bike ; Jack Hinz : the plane that Jack built -- 19. Unusual talents:
Burton Silver : the atypical inventor ; Steve Gurney : multi-talented multi-sporter ; Barry Brickell :
master of fire and steam -- 20. Leisure leaders: A.J. Hackett : the bungy king ; Kelly Tarlton :
Neptune of the underwater world -- 22. Business entrepreneurs: Joseph Nathan : the empire that began in
Bunnythorpe ; A.H. Reed : publishing pioneer ; Wendy Pye : from redundancy to a fortune ; Stephen
Tindall : The Warehouse ; Geoffrey Blackwell : M.I.L.K. ; Peter Leitch : the Mad Butcher -- 22.[sic]
Modern technologists: John Bedbrook : biochemist ; Steve Outtrim : software programmer -- 23. Peter
Jackson : master of the movies -- 24. The next generation.